balabaya

== Ladino == === Etymology === From Hebrew. === Noun === balabaya f (plural balabayas) mistress of the house hostess ==== Coordinate terms ==== (gender): balabay === Further reading === Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977), “balabáya”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 78 Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000), “balabaya”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 58 Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “báʿalat”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC